- THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 6 Friday, November 21, 1980 Al's Foreign Car Service Specialist in • Toyota • Audi Porsche • Volkswagen • Datson • Honda Cars CALL . 548-3926 548-4160 FERNDALE Between Livernois & Pinecrest MICH. 1018 W. 9 Mile Rd. Alfons G. Rehme Rabbis in Kaplan Centennial Wiesenthal Center Cites Liz NEW YORK — Rabbi Stanley Rabinowitz of Cong. Adath Israel, Wash- ington, D.C., who is a former president of the Rabbincal Assembly (Con- servative); Rabbi David Polish, Rabbi Emeritus of the Free Synagogue, Evanston, Ill., and former president of the Central Conference of American Let Daily Diet Counseling help you lose 17-25 pounds (men lose 28-35 pounds) in just 6 weeks • • no drugs • quickly • no shots • safely • permanently • no contracts Ct. Rabbis (Reform), and Rabbi David Brusin of Niles Township Jewish Congre- gation, Skokie, Ill., a former president of the Reconstruc- tionist Rabbinical Associa- tion, are the co-chairmen of the rabbinical committee which has been formed in honor of the centennial cel- ebration of the birth of Mor- decai M. Kaplan, the foun- der of the Reconstructionist movement and a major thinker and Jewish theolo- gian. More than 300 rabbis have joined the committee to honor Rabbi Kaplan who first developed the idea of the synagogue as a Jewish center. He advocated the notion of the organic Jewish community, advanced the concept of Jews living simultaneously in Ameri- can and Jewish culture, in- troduced the Bat Mitzva ceremony, pioneered in bringing religious equality for women and recognized Jewish peoplehood as the bond which unites Jews throughout the world into a transnational people with Israel as the focal point. During the centennial year rabbis on the com- mittee will lead courses' on Kaplan's thought and devote sermons and lec- tures to his ideas and contributions. DAILY DIET COUNSELING Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg of Temple Emanuel, Englewodd, N.J. and a pro- fessor at Columbia Univer- sity will be the principal speaker at the Mordecai M. Kaplan Centennial lecture/symposium on Sun- day in New York. Now Open In LIVONIA TROY Sunset Plaza WEST BLOOMFIELD 19075 Middlebelt 81 E. Long Lake Rd. Cranbrook Centre 6070 W. Maple Rd. 477-6590 at Livernois 30233 Southfield Rd. Suite 205 879-2222 Suite 102 855-3430 MIL Southfield 642-5665 SPITZER'S Elizabeth Taylor Warner was honored as the first Simon Wiesenthal Humanitarian Laureate earlier this month in Los Angeles. Shown with Wiesenthal at a Los Angeles dinner, Mrs. Warner donated her time, along with Orson Welles, to co-narrate a multi-media presentation on the Holocaust which will be released nation-wide next year. Polish Professor to Do Research at Hebrew U. NEW YORK — Prof. Witold J. Tyloch, head of the Warsaw University's De- partment of Ancient Near East and Hebrew Studies, will serve as visiting re- search professor at Yeshiva University where he is gathering material for his new Polish language books on the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Talmud. The Polish academician has received many awards, including citations from the Israeli Ministry of Educa- tion and Culture, the Col- lege de France, and the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture. of Harvard Row Your Headquarters for all your Hanuka Needs I 1" 1 Just Off The Press SUPER SPECIAL! 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In Detroit last- week, he met with leaders at a lunch- eon organized by Mrs. Samuel Hamburger, Rabbi Irwin Groner and Rabbi Richard Hertz, and spoke at a session of the Council of Jewish Federations Gen- eral Assembly. Resettle Kibutz Is Goal of Aliya Center Project CELEBRATING THEIR 34th ANNIVERSARY r SCA Leader on U.S. Trip master charge 1 ,41...411F040.1‘ CB,PD NEW YORK — "Chavurat HaKibutz," a new project sponsored by the Israel Aliya Center, has begun to organize groups of Israelis to return to Israel to settle in new kibutzim which have been estalished throughout the country. The campaign is modeled after a similar campaign in Israel which brought an un- precedented movement of young families from urban areas to kibutzim. Simi- larly, many families young Israelis in the L.-. are expected to answer the national challenge that is being offered to them. Arms Balance LONDON (ZINS) — The International Strategic In- stitute has published a sur- vey that shows that Israel now has 483 combat air- craft, 3,050 tanks, 63 naval vessels and three sub- marines. Egypt has 363 planes, 1,980 tanks, 78 ships and 10 submarines. Iraq has 322 aircraft, 2,880 tanks and 48 ships. Jordan has 58 planes and 749 tanks, while Libya has 287 planes, 2,780 tanks, 32 ships and three submarines.